Hancock

Hancock is the 694th most common surname in the United States, shared by 47,984 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,229.

By the numbers

People: 47,984
Rank: 694th
How common: 1 in 6,229
Per 100,000: 16.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From Hann + cock.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hancock described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 84.4%
Black, not Hispanic 7.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Hancock

Herbie Hancock (born 1940)American jazz pianist and composer
John Hancock (1737–1793)American Patriot and statesman during the American Revolution
Matt Hancock (born 1978)British politician
Graham Hancock (born 1950)British author who promotes pseudoscientific theories
Winfield Scott Hancock (1824–1886)United States Army officer
Vincent Hancock (born 1989)American sport shooter
Sheila Hancock (born 1933)British actress
John Lee Hancock (born 1956)American film director, writer and producer

People named Hancock with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Hancock

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.